Amherst, N.S. shoppers set to make last buys at historic Dayle’s department store

WATCH: Few places can match an old-fashioned, independent department store, but many have been pushed out by strip malls and box stores. Ross Lord visits Dayle's department store in Amherst, Nova Scotia, before it also closes its doors for the last time.

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AMHERST, N.S. — Eleanor Ripley insists, despite evidence to the contrary, it’s a time for celebration. Ripley is among the many customers visiting Dayle’s department store this week, in Amherst, N.S., to say goodbye.

More than a century after it opened in 1906, under the name The Two Barkers, Dayle’s is closing.

“A little WD-40 [grease] will fix you right up, Eleanor,” shouts her friend, Sharon Duffy, as Ripley tries in vain to spin on a stool left over from the store’s glory days.